frenchy chan Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/the-reject-pile/Content?oid=2697358 The Reject Pile Meet the folks who keep Ohio's license plates tasteful by Vince Grzegorek Once every day, a "Special Plates Review Committee" sits down to ponder new requests for Ohio vanity license plates. The group of seven includes folks ranging from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles' chief dealer of licensing to the department's customer service assistants. If there isn't a consensus, the offending plate is pushed up the ladder for Top Men to make a final call. For all the innocuous "ILUVCATS" that find happy homes on beige mini-vans, there is also a pile of rejections. The denials include those featuring vulgarities, threatening remarks, racist language, and sexual references, as well as acronyms and abbreviations that might be harder for the untrained eye to decipher. Happily, sleazeball motorists are not exactly taking over our roads. From January through May, the Special Plates Review Committee had rejected 57 out of an astounding 194,000 vanity plate submissions, according to documents provided by the Ohio Department of Public Safety. (18 more were rejected between May and July.) Outcasts range from the predictably prurient (ORGZM, ICUM1ST), to expressions of a sporting bent (BCSSUX), to the pathetically lame (1BADSOB, FKNAWSM), to the-why-would-you-ever-want-that (EATSHHT), to the definitely clever yet just as definitely forbidden (CAPSAHO). If you think you can slide a naughty reference by the board, rest assured it won't work. BMV spokeswoman Lindsey Bohrer says the group digs into the interwebs to research the more inscrutable entries. "When reviewing, we primarily use the internet, which gives us access to various language websites, including sites for urban slang," she says. "There is a file that is kept of all the words we have denied in the past, which we add to each day, so the combinations in the file are automatically blocked." For example, "NEONFTW" was among the vetoed applications. While the plate was likely intended to convey "Neon, for the Win" to uninterested fellow drivers, "FTW" can also mean "Fuck the World," so it earned the red X. In fact, the BMV references no higher an authority than Urban Dictionary in clarifying why the plate was rejected. And they really are careful with profanity over there: They even censored the naughty word as "F*ck" in their e-mail. Below, the complete list of rejected plates so far in 2011. OHELL, NGASPLS, MPGSUX, HAULSAZ, FOKFUNY, FKNAWSM, FKGAS, FCKWME, 1BPISC, WYTTRSH, WTF1, WOPMNEY, STLRSUQ, STEWGOT, SMARTAZ, RICHFKR, RFNPL8, PORNER1, ORGZM, OMGBFD, NGASPLZ, NEONFTW, MOMSMLK, LILSOB, KILLNEM, ITSTITS, ISHOOTU, IKUM1ST, ICUM1ST, HOLESHT, HIYELLW, H8TERS, FUPAME, FUKFUNY, FTMFWB, FOURPLA, FNDODGE, FKNMINI, FCKNLOW, EFNAWSM, EFFEMUP, EATSHHT, DOOKIE1, CUUUCH, CAPSAHO, BENZFTW, BCSSUX, BAMFTA, BAADAZZ, B4D4SS, ASSN9, 4VAJJ, 4CLIMAX, 2FNHOT, 1BATTOP, 1BADSOB, FKGAS, FNFASST, FUBLU, BTCH1, COONIN, DIUKN, DMBFN46, ABADSOB, S2GOTZ, STUGOTZ, HAULSAZ, IFARTED, IH8NCAA, IMRFBCH, MIGKLR, MSTNKLR, NOFARTN, ZMB3KLR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trouble Maker Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 Some of those got rejected? I was just in Michigan and saw an over-tanned wrinkly old woman get into a new Camaro with the tags 2SSEXY :dumb: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wease Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 Some good ones in there. Ryan S. (not sure if he ever gets on here anymore) somehow got "BMF" passed this board. When asked what it meant, he said "Big Man's Friend"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchy chan Posted July 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 i laughed at the "neonftw" one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRed05 Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 If you look at the 2010 list I bet you'll find "I LV VAG"...they rejected me on that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AC66Bronco Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 some of them just dont make any sense to me lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmuckingham Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 I still like my plate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudiOn19s Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 I was this close (holding up my fingers though you can't see them) to requesting "F CANCR" for the GT3 but chickened out last minute figureing they would reject it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 People really thing "FTW" means Fuck the world? Really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 If you think you can slide a naughty reference by the board, rest assured it won't work. I wouldn't be so sure about that: http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=168&pictureid=4027 My buddy's C5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmuckingham Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 Ill get a pic of my plate to post up here for the LULZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AC66Bronco Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 btw what is it with the vast amounts of vanity plates down here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye1647545503 Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 My fav I have seen is a kid with "omg stfu" lol I about crashed laughing so hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wease Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 I wouldn't be so sure about that: http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=168&pictureid=4027 My buddy's C5. I still can't believe he was able to get that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 They rejected I SPY PSI. The guy at the BMV said it read as I Spy Pussy. I sould have applied for BMV FTL. I took SPOOLYN instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browning Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 People really thing "FTW" means Fuck the world? Really? before the internet it did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 People really thing "FTW" means Fuck the world? Really? Somebody I know had a plate that said "GTIFTW", and they never rejected it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybye Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 I wouldn't be so sure about that: http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=168&pictureid=4027 My buddy's C5. He used to have an SRT4 right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 before the internet it did. It didn't come from the internet, it came from Hollywood Squares. The internet just ran away with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browning Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 It didn't come from the internet, it came from Hollywood Squares. The internet just ran away with it. ok well before Hollywood Squares then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwashmycar Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 I was a little surprised they let my old plate pass http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a299/iwashmycar/Mini/0630103.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsey Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 Looks like "goatse" is still good. My fav is "F 65mph" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrblunt Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 They let me by with 'MrBlunt' and 'POFS DSM'. Prime example of what happens when the moral majority takes over. Wonder if TPRTFTL is avail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjrsplat Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 Doesn't a member here have the plate "PIIHB"? I saw a car with it at one of the sawmill meets, IIRC pretty sure it was a fox body. I laughed pretty hard when I saw that plate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmuckingham Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 Doesn't a member here have the plate "PIIHB"? I saw a car with it at one of the sawmill meets, IIRC pretty sure it was a fox body. I laughed pretty hard when I saw that plate. Mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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